Gift Quotes

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I was born with the gift.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Your anger is a gift.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the "good life" we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.